Inside Judy’s FINAL DAYS
Minutes before Judy Garland would go on stage at London’s Talk of the Town nightclub during a five-week stint in 1969, she’d stand quietly in the corner. There, Rosalyn Wilder, a young theatre assistant, would coax her to go on. “She’d say, ‘I can’t face it,’” recalls Wilder, now 79. “And I’d say to her, ‘Of course you can. You’re Judy Garland. You’re a legend.’ Eventually I’d cross my fingers behind my back, give her a gentle push and off she’d go. And when she walked out and the lights went and one of the greatest entertainers the world had ever seen, didn’t have much left at all.
